TopInfrared 4+

Coming from FLIRONE Pro. Pros are: it’s way faster and less finicky, just works, no long startup, no terrible battery that needs to be warm before functional. Cons: needs a dedicated iPad app. I need the ability to easily take landscape photos with the correct formatting/the text needs to rotate/always remain in the correct position. My biggest gripe is why does it look amazing on the screen but the photos come out terrible, cloudy/grainy and not what I see when using the camera? Please keep working on it because it has great potential!

It lost one star due to no option for iPad. Aside from that, the app is easier to navigate than previous versions and remembers settings now. The way I use it requires the camera to be on an extension cord and inverted. The earlier version of this app required that I invert the image every single time I opened it, and adjust from metric to imperial measurements, as well as a few other personal preference tweaks. Now it’s a plug and play that allows for much faster use. I have not been able to make use of a lot of the features due to lack of time to play with them, so an extensive pdf manual with examples would be nice. My first time with this app was not easy in the least due to the learning curve and lack of direct access to a detailed manual. Thankfully, there are several forums that filled in for that, and I was able to learn relatively quickly. I use this app for HVAC and other construction projects to check for heat loss and leakage from a distance rather than having to be right next to the potential issue in question, and it has sped my work up significantly. “Seeing” hot spots in a ceiling or cold jets from ducts in an attic has made my job much easier. Learning to adjust and fine tune was not easy. That missing manual would have really helped.

It does what it says but for thermal analysis, I can’t find a way to set a fixed, arbitrary range of min/max temperatures. As is, each thermal capture will have a random pseudo color representation as it will adapt to the min/max temperatures in the frame. This makes it useless to compare a series of captures. They each will have a different color for a given temperature. What I am measuring has a known min/max range. I should be able to set it so every capture in that set will have consistent color representation for the temperatures in that range.